Zero-Click Exploit
In a chilling cautionary tale, a New York Times journalist says a hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text message — even though he never clicked anything.
Ben Hubbard, a NYT reporter covering the Middle East, said that hackers used something called a “zero-click exploit” in order to get into his phone in 2020 and 2021, according to an article he wrote in the NYT. Experts say that just receiving an iMessage from a hacker using this exploit can be enough to leave users’ personal data exposed.
“It’s like being robbed by a ghost,” Hubbard wrote.
Spyware Pegasus
After consulting with Citizen Lab, a spyware research institute, Hubbard was able to trace the source of the text back to spyware called Pegasus. The software was created by the NSO Group, an Israel-based software developer, and has been linked to mobile phone hacks before — though the company routinely denies the allegations. read more here